RE: FW: I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines, where do I mail the developer(s) ?

2001-05-17 Thread David Wilson
Hi Alan, Mmm no luck so far ;( I've checked that the bios is the latest available and there doesn't seem to be any type of chipset software patch or upgrade. What I have done is tried compiling the kernel for AMD K6/2, K6/3, .this seems to work nicely and it's stable. It seems that I'll have

RE: FW: I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines, where do I mail the developer(s) ?

2001-05-17 Thread David Wilson
Hi Alan, Mmm no luck so far ;( I've checked that the bios is the latest available and there doesn't seem to be any type of chipset software patch or upgrade. What I have done is tried compiling the kernel for AMD K6/2, K6/3, .this seems to work nicely and it's stable. It seems that I'll have

Re: FW: I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines, where do I mail the developer(s) ?

2001-05-16 Thread Alan Cox
> I wonder if DFI has a bios or chipset patch available and whether that would > help ? > Maybe disabling the VIA chipset support in the kernel and running generic > drivers would help ? Play with ideas see what you find out. You might strike lucky. So far nobody else has - To unsubscribe from

RE: FW: I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines, where do I mail the developer(s) ?

2001-05-16 Thread David Wilson
Hi Mark, Thanks for getting back to me, yea I'm running my fsb at 100 alreadystill seems to be the same problem. I donno, I'm just gonna have to mess around with things till I get it right ;-) Thanks for the guidance anyways. Regards David Wilson Technical Support Centre The S.A Internet

RE: FW: I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines, where do I mail the developer(s) ?

2001-05-16 Thread David Wilson
Hi Mark, Thanks for getting back to me, yea I'm running my fsb at 100 alreadystill seems to be the same problem. I donno, I'm just gonna have to mess around with things till I get it right ;-) Thanks for the guidance anyways. Regards David Wilson Technical Support Centre The S.A Internet

Re: FW: I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines, where do I mail the developer(s) ?

2001-05-16 Thread Alan Cox
I wonder if DFI has a bios or chipset patch available and whether that would help ? Maybe disabling the VIA chipset support in the kernel and running generic drivers would help ? Play with ideas see what you find out. You might strike lucky. So far nobody else has - To unsubscribe from this

RE: FW: I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines, where do I mail the developer(s) ?

2001-05-15 Thread David Wilson
Hi Alan, Thanks for getting back to me. I wonder if DFI has a bios or chipset patch available and whether that would help ? Maybe disabling the VIA chipset support in the kernel and running generic drivers would help ? Thanks. Keep up the good work anyways ! Regards David Wilson Technical

FW: I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines, where do I mail the developer(s) ?

2001-05-15 Thread David Wilson
Hi all, howzit going ? ;-) Maybe I'm being dumb but I've been working with Linux long enough not to make a silly mistake *I hope*. I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines in kernel 2.4.4. I'm running an AMD athlon 850 running at 100x8.5, everything is setup correct

FW: I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines, where do I mail the developer(s) ?

2001-05-15 Thread David Wilson
Hi all, howzit going ? ;-) Maybe I'm being dumb but I've been working with Linux long enough not to make a silly mistake *I hope*. I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines in kernel 2.4.4. I'm running an AMD athlon 850 running at 100x8.5, everything is setup correct

RE: FW: I think I've found a serious bug in AMD Athlon page_alloc.c routines, where do I mail the developer(s) ?

2001-05-15 Thread David Wilson
Hi Alan, Thanks for getting back to me. I wonder if DFI has a bios or chipset patch available and whether that would help ? Maybe disabling the VIA chipset support in the kernel and running generic drivers would help ? Thanks. Keep up the good work anyways ! Regards David Wilson Technical